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The preparation of an SEO Site Audit is something that every SEO, whether in-house, agency-side, or independent consultant, has done. They range from a brief assessment of an hour or two followed by a quick email to mammoth document of more than 50 pages that can take a month or more to complete. A junior SEO might charge a few hundred dollars for a quick assessment and a well known consu...
Analytics is one of those things that hasn’t always been at the top of my priority list until recently. Google Analytics has many features I’ve never used before because I haven’t had the time to sit down and really investigate what they can do for me and my clients. A few months ago, in one of my late night GA adventures, I found a section on event tracking, a small love soon formed.
I want to share a technique I have been using with regards to testing PPC ads to find the ads that work best for me. There are two reasons I wanted to write this post: 1. I wanted to highlight the importance of testing the different elements within a PPC ad rather than the ad as a single entity 2. As an extension of Rand’s post on ...
Last week, a few of us from SEOmoz attended WebShare’s Seminar for Success for Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer training. All of us who attended have a decent grasp on GA but really wanted to get some advanced information and gain a better understanding of GA’s potential. Plus, actually getting trained on something is always helpful, even if you feel you know it well!...
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The SEO industry, like many others, has private forums, chat threads and groups of connected individuals whose interactions happen largely behind closed doors. Today, I'd like to pull back a curtain and share a debate that occurred between a number of CEOs in the search marketing industry over the last few days that I think you'll find both fascinating, and hopefully, valuable, too. The...
Somehow, my flight from Seattle landed just before the newest Icelandic ash cloud began shutting down airports across UK airspace. As a result, I was able to present at SMX London this morning. The presentation is included below. This slide deck focuses on things that are probably in the search engines' r...
A cheatsheet and inspiration for APIs and data sources that can be used to build SEO tools. You can use these sources to build research tools or linkworthy content and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the community's output.
We at Globe Runner SEO developed a whitepaper for potential clients to illustrate the benefits and ROI of Social Media , and wanted to share it with the YOUmoz community! Any feedback and recommendations are appreciated. -- You know your company needs social media, but i...
May Day, Roodmas, Walpurgis Night, Beltane...a time for dancing around the maypole, enjoying the bounties of Spring, reminising on the battle for worker's rights, and lots of other fun things. But for many a search marketer, May 1st (ish) o fthis year will be remembered as the day the long tail died (Bye-Bye Misses High ROI). ...
A while ago I set up an experiment to test Google's support for crawling pages that use AJAX and, because Google took a bit too long to index the page, I forgot all about it. Then, today I found the PHP code I used for the test so checked Google and found the page had been indexed. I thought I'd share the test for anyone who is interes...
Congratulations on making it halfway through building this SEO Strategy document with me! Do you feel your value as an SEO rising? If you’re jumping into the 8 Step SEO Strategy here in Step 4, or just need a recap, you can find the previous three steps here: Step 1: ...
While the number of links you get to your website and the popularity it will receive do not depend only on you, the on-page optimization is in your hands and nowadays you MUST squeeze out everything you can from it. This is why I start each new website by creating its backbone (call it framework, template or whatever you prefer). In this post I will try to use all the benefits HT...
This video is about choosing the right SEO Company to do the job, and do the job well. I still think this industry is in a sorry state of affairs especially here in the UK and I believe it’s down to two things; 1) broken promises and 2) not being realistic with potential customers. 95% of calls and emails...
Last week Jen and I attended the Search & Social Summit here in my backyard of Tampa Bay. This isn't your typical conference recap post, though. I wanted to focus on the action items that still stand out for me a week later, the things will make a difference in what I do or how I do it. Perhaps you'll rethink the way you do a thing or two as well.